Searching for the ultimate mobile gaming rig

[RedMatterCrafter]

Hey i am searching for a solution to my very special problem.

I want a Laptop, which has a great battery life and is light and is portable + it would be awesome to have a convertable (so I could write on it like on real paper), so that I can use it during my mechanical engineering study. But I also would like it to have good gaming performance.

1. The first solution would be to get 2 systems, one for gaming and one for productivity, but I dont like to have a Laptop and a Desktop at the same time. I am kind of weird, but I'd like to have one system to rule them all

 

2. The secound solution is to get a Laptop with a good cpu and usb-c/thunderbolt 3 support (x4 for best experience). But I didn't found any laptops that fullfill my needs entirely perfect. One option is the razorblade stealth, but I think it is not so good in the price to performance perspective (or is it?). Another option is the dell xps lineup (there is also a convertable, which would be neat), but they dont feature 4 lanes of pcie 3. (Or a Macbook, with Windows, but I think this would be too expancive)

 

Could you help me solve my misery  and give me some advice on what to do?

 

(Rigth now I have a gaming rig and a laptop (which isn't that good))

(Sry for bad english. I am from germany)

 

 

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

i would just recommend u to get a custom rig, based on MINI ITX platform ( tiny af case ect )

 

one with a good enough cpu for productivity and a good enough gpu for gaming

 

mini itx is rather portable however u cant take it out on ur lap and play like that if u want that ul need a high end laptop

 

mini itx however is easy to carry from house to house

[Input_Name_Here]

10 minutes ago, RedMatterCrafter said:

Hey i am searching for a solution to my very special problem.

I want a Laptop, which has a great battery life and is light and is portable + it would be awesome to have a convertable (so I could write on it like on real paper), so that I can use it during my mechanical engineering study. But I also would like it to have good gaming performance.

1. The first solution would be to get 2 systems, one for gaming and one for productivity, but I dont like to have a Laptop and a Desktop at the same time. I am kind of weird, but I'd like to have one system to rule them all

 

2. The secound solution is to get a Laptop with a good cpu and usb-c/thunderbolt 3 support (x4 for best experience). But I didn't found any laptops that fullfill my needs entirely perfect. One option is the razorblade stealth, but I think it is not so good in the price to performance perspective (or is it?). Another option is the dell xps lineup (there is also a convertable, which would be neat), but they dont feature 4 lanes of pcie 3. (Or a Macbook, with Windows, but I think this would be too expancive)

 

Could you help me solve my misery  and give me some advice on what to do?

 

(Rigth now I have a gaming rig and a laptop (which isn't that good))

(Sry for bad english. I am from germany)

 

 

Think of it as a long-term investment, it is probably worth spending +2000$ on a really good laptop once and having it for +6 years rather than buying a shitty 900$ one every 1 or 2 years and getting a worse experience overall. 

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

4 minutes ago, Input_Name_Here said:

Think of it as a long-term investment, it is probably worth spending +2000$ on a really good laptop once and having it for +6 years rather than buying a shitty 900$ one every 1 or 2 years and getting a worse experience overall. 

the thing is laptops are behind on desktops by FAR, for a long term investment getting a good badass cpu and gpu in a mini itx is way more proof then a flaptop :v ( also dont forget dead batteries ect )

[genexis_x]

If you have the budget, get a portable&decent built laptop and a gaming desktop

[Anghammarad]

Lookie here... it isn't what I was remembering, (haven't found that sophisticated version in a military grade housing) but still =)

 

https://www.computerbase.de/forum/showthread.php?t=1147644

[ElZamo92]

I think the Surface Book 2 Has what you are looking for. It's going to have a quad core and a gtx 1050, but then it is going to be very expensive.  

[light-v]

I think that even if you pay 200-250$ for an uber small ITX case like the NFC S4 Mini it will still be worth it because you could shove something like a badass 8700K in it and a 1070 (Linus did put a 1080 in it but I wouldn't try tbh) and still have the option to upgrade 

 

Edit: here is the video

 

[RedMatterCrafter]

5 hours ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

i would just recommend u to get a custom rig, based on MINI ITX platform ( tiny af case ect )

 

one with a good enough cpu for productivity and a good enough gpu for gaming

 

mini itx is rather portable however u cant take it out on ur lap and play like that if u want that ul need a high end laptop

 

mini itx however is easy to carry from house to house

I have a mini Itx gaming rig with an i5 6600K and an gtx 1060. But i definitely need a laptop anyway, so I thougt that i just get one with thunderbolt 3 x4 and fuse them togehter.

And my budget is rather large. I would have chosen a good laptop over a crapy/cheap one for sure.

[RedMatterCrafter]

4 hours ago, ElZamo92 said:

I think the Surface Book 2 Has what you are looking for. It's going to have a quad core and a gtx 1050, but then it is going to be very expensive.  

Ok great Idea. But I think, that i will keep my gaming rig, because of its performance. But I will definitely keep it in mind!

[light-v]

12 minutes ago, RedMatterCrafter said:

I have a mini Itx gaming rig with an i5 6600K and an gtx 1060. But i definitely need a laptop anyway, so I thougt that i just get one with thunderbolt 3 x4 and fuse them togehter.

And my budget is rather large. I would have chosen a good laptop over a crapy/cheap one for sure.

Do you commute between two fixed locations or you travel a lot? 

 

I personally have a desktop at the places where I move back and forth and a thin and light for my outdoor compute needs since I don't like to game in an not so comfortable environment (I'll bring my Switch instead if I really want my gaming fix)

 

Unless you play MMOs or other PC exclusives at odd locations because of in-game schedule (which I understand) gaming laptops are kinda awkward to use most of the time. 

[RedMatterCrafter]

14 hours ago, light-v said:

Do you commute between two fixed locations or you travel a lot? 

 

I personally have a desktop at the places where I move back and forth and a thin and light for my outdoor compute needs since I don't like to game in an not so comfortable environment (I'll bring my Switch instead if I really want my gaming fix)

 

Unless you play MMOs or other PC exclusives at odd locations because of in-game schedule (which I understand) gaming laptops are kinda awkward to use most of the time. 

I will stay at 2 fixed locations, the university and my apartment. I was thinking like you, but i wanted a laptop that could do both, being protable and able to work with an e-gpu. But I think now that this isn't the best idea. I will have to use 2 systems sadly.

[light-v]

16 minutes ago, RedMatterCrafter said:

I will stay at 2 fixed locations, the university and my apartment. I was thinking like you, but i wanted a laptop that could do both, being protable and able to work with an e-gpu. But I think now that this isn't the best idea. I will have to use 2 systems sadly.

I had that idea too but the more I thought about it the more I realised I would be wasting money and performance. TB3 is a bottleneck for anything beyond a 1060 but a Razer Core itself cost the same as a 1070/1080. That drives total price to as much as a proper desktop so I bought a used Haswell i5 for about 120$, an itx mobo and some RAM and I just take the GPU with me. Linus also pointed out that the Core is also as big as the Dan Case A4-SFX so there's that too. 

 

I tried gaming on the train and the plane and I hated it so that's why I'm not really sold on gaming laptops anymore